Chemists in 19th-century Europe often hung crocodiles and other reptiles from the ceilings of their shops as a way of indicating to customers that they had access to rare, exotic ingredients.
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and a woman came in, looking around the shop. I asked if I could help her, and she said "Oh no thanks, I was just looking to see if you were a chemist as well as a pharmacy, but you're not." I patiently explained that they meant the same thing, but she was insistent. "Chemists have the bottles of coloured liquid and they make things up, but you're just a pharmacy."
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